Trade publication Bookreporter.com took the 66 teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament and paired each with a book written by a graduate or faculty member from that school.

The University of Wisconsin and Marquette fared well in Bookreporter's match-ups. Bucky Badger is represented by Peter Straub's"Ghost Story." Next to Stephen King, Straub may be the biggest name in American horror writing. (He was also born in Milwaukee and occasionally sets a book in our state.) | March 21, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Actors are taught to act and opera singers are taught to sing - and all too rarely do the twain really meet.

The Florentine Opera Company's production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," directed by Candace Evans, cast that notion aside Friday evening with a spot-on blend of absolutely sterling singing and audience-connected acting. | May 11, 2013»Read Full Article

While her father is out of town on business, her mother takes a lover. When her father comes home, Mom and her new consort stab him. She herself is thrown out of the house. Her baby brother now lives in exile.

No wonder Electra has a complex. The question is whether her righteous anger regarding the murder of her father (Agamemnon) can justify plotting with her brother (Orestes) to murder Mom (Clytemnestra) and Mom's new squeeze (Aegisthus). | May 11, 2013»Read Full Article